Striving for Science C106 pt2

Before being dragged into hell by the White Impermanence, the thug clung to the door and asked Shen Chang'an, "Your codename is Tianyou, is it because you have the protection of Heaven?"

Shen Chang'an stepped on the stairs, turned to look at the thug, "I won't tell you, I'll let you die of curiosity."

Thug: "..."

The door closed, and he fell into the endless hell, surrounded by the cries of pain.

He faintly heard a majestic voice saying to him, "Your crimes are unforgivable, sentenced to eighteen levels of torture, you can only be reincarnated after a thousand years..."

Eighteen levels of torture...

When he was very young, he had heard old people say that if someone did too many evil deeds in their lifetime, they would be sent to the eighteen levels of hell and suffer all kinds of punishments.

But he never took it seriously.

If only I had known...

If only I had known...

As Shen Chang'an stepped onto the fifth floor, a figure suddenly appeared beside him. He turned to the newcomer, "You're here?"

"Hmm." Dao Nian could smell a faint scent of blood on Shen Chang'an, but the golden light of merit on him was still dazzlingly bright.

"Someone seems to be following us from downstairs," Shen Chang'an didn't want to expose Dao Nian's Heavenly Dao identity, causing him too much trouble, "Do you want to go invisible?"

"No need." Dao Nian held Shen Chang'an's hand, "Your codename is Tianyou?"

Shen Chang'an: "..."

Seems like we're destined to meet." Dao Nian smirked, "I'm just protecting my believers, what's wrong with that?

Shen Chang'an: "..."

"Let's go." Dao Nian strode forward confidently, as if taking Shen Chang'an on a shopping trip, treating everything like a paper tiger.

The thug guarding outside the broadcasting room heard the footsteps and immediately raised his gun, aiming at the entrance. But when he saw Shen Chang'an and Dao Nian swaggering out, he were instantly enraged. What did these two think they were doing, looking down on him?

Without hesitation, he pulled the trigger.

Bang!

The second gunshot echoed through the school's entire campus, amplified by the radio equipment in the broadcasting room.

Then, they heard another scream, this one was unfamiliar, not like Shen Chang'an's voice. Yao Huailin secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he turned his head and looked at the jacket he had thrown aside, awkwardly picked it up and folded it.

He was waiting for Shen Chang'an to come back and put on his clothes properly. Who would help him watch his clothes?!

The thug's worldview shattered. He clearly saw the bullet fly out, why did it suddenly fall halfway? He shot a bullet, not a feather!

Unfortunately, he didn't have a second chance. Shen Chang'an rushed forward and kicked him against the wall.

He slammed into the wall, then bounced off the ground. Before he could get up, his wrist was stepped on hard, and he heard the sound of his wrist bones breaking.

"Sorry, I actually wanted to step on your right hand holding the gun, I guessed wrong." The person who stepped on him said this, moved his foot off his wrist, and the next second stepped on his right wrist again.

His hand!

His hand was broken!

"That's right." Shen Chang'an was satisfied. He kicked the screaming thug, "This is school grounds, please don't make a fuss, or I'll step on your head."

The thug glared at Shen Chang'an with hatred, and finally... shut his mouth.

The thug hiding in the broadcasting room heard his accomplice's scream, but instead of rushing out, he reached out and grabbed a student, holding a gun to his head.

Out of the three students, there was one boy and two girls.

The boy was a kid who loved skipping class and playing games, and he wasn't very popular with his classmates. He shivered, watching the thug point the gun at the girls in the class, and whispered, "You, you... if you're a man, don't go after girls, you have the guts, take me hostage."

The thug didn't bother with him, raised his hand to shoot him, but before he could, the door to the broadcasting room was kicked open, and a familiar face appeared before him.

"Tianyou!" The thug looked at Shen Chang'an with hatred. "You finally showed up. You killed so many of our brothers. Today, I'm going to send you down to meet them."

"Dog Brother, I advise you not to shake your hand." Shen Chang'an looked at the little girl the thug was holding hostage. "Otherwise, I'll send you to the 18th level of hell to suffer with your brothers."

Dog Brother's eyes widened: "What about my other two brothers?"

"They..." Shen Chang'an tilted his head. "They're waiting to join you on the road."

"Fine, fine, fine. You're so arrogant, you think I won't shoot her?" Dog Brother was getting emotional. The girl he was holding hostage was so scared she wanted to cry but couldn't. She could only look at Shen Chang'an in despair.

"Dog Brother, you've seen the world. Taking a few kids hostage, isn't that a bit unreasonable?" Shen Chang'an walked into the broadcast room. "That's probably not a good idea."

"Reasonableness is bullshit!" Dog Brother said hatefully. "When you infiltrated our organization and killed so many brothers, did you care about reasonableness?"

"That's a funny way to put it. It was clearly you who deliberately lured me into the organization, wanting to use me to steal national classified information. How did it become me intentionally infiltrating you?" Shen Chang'an spread his hands. "After all, I'm just an orphan whose parents died for the country, whose thesis was stolen, and who was bullied by rich kids at school. I hated the sky, hated the earth, hated society. You thought it would be more fulfilling to make a martyr's child do illegal things, so you approached me. Now you're blaming me? Are all you bad guys so unreasonable?"

"So it was all a deliberate trap you set for us?" Dog Brother's face contorted in anger. "There were already your moles among us?"

"Those things are true, but my desire to get revenge on society is fake." Shen Chang'an saw that Dog Brother's hand holding the gun was trembling with anger, and he shook his head with a tsk-tsk sound. "From kindergarten, teachers have been teaching me to be a successor to society with ideals, culture, and discipline. I was a top student who received the Three Good Student Award every year. How could I forget the teacher's teachings?"

"You tricked us, I'm going to kill you!" Dog Brother raised his gun and fired at Shen Chang'an.

"Ah!" The girl next to him screamed in fright.

***

The police officers in the school were so startled by the words coming from the radio that they all stood up.

"Chang'an... is Tianyou?" Ding Yang stood there in a daze. Chen Panpan and Xu Ze beside him were equally shocked.

"No wonder his driving skills are so good, and his moves to beat up the thugs are so sharp." Ding Yang muttered, "It turns out he's already paid so much."

"All team members prepare, you must do your best to ensure... the hero's safety." The captain of the action team said in a deep voice, "Prepare to attack."

"Yes!" The members of the action team responded in unison.

The atmosphere outside was as tense as the atmosphere in the broadcast room was eerie. After all, just half a minute ago, a miraculous event of catching a bullet with bare hands had just happened.

Catching a bullet with bare hands is something only the protagonists in cheesy dramas can do. In reality, no one can stand still and catch a bullet.

But Shen Chang'an did it.

The furious Dog Brother couldn't believe his eyes. He even doubted if he was still dreaming. Was this Tianyou in front of him the real Tianyou? Was he a living person? How could a living person do such a thing?

Shen Chang'an smiled at Dao Nian, who was invisibly beside him, and played with the bullet in his hand in a very showy way. "Dog Brother, you might have forgotten my name."

"What do you mean?" Dog Brother watched Shen Chang'an warily, taking a step back while holding the girl hostage.

"My name is Tianyou." Shen Chang'an tucked the bullet into his pants pocket, as if he hadn't noticed Dog Brother's wary expression. He turned off the radio's receiver. "I'm a man protected by Heaven, how could a bullet hit me?"

Dog Brother: "..."

This guy is crazy!

"Oh, Heavenly Dao, I think this villain is a beast, why don't you just break his arms first?" Shen Chang'an said with a smile.

The next second, Dog Brother felt his arms go cold, and then he lost consciousness.

The girl he was holding hostage realized that the hands holding her were losing strength and quickly left Dog Brother's side.

"You three kids, all go out." Shen Chang'an saw a girl sitting still, "What's wrong?"

"I-I have a bomb under my chair," the girl said with a choked voice. "You guys go, don't worry about me."

Seeing the girl so scared, and asking them to leave first, Shen Chang'an couldn't help but laugh, "It's okay, don't be afraid. I'm a man blessed by Heaven. You're under my protection. Heaven will see my face and definitely won't let the bomb explode. You can leave with peace of mind."

The girl sobbed, "Teacher said we should believe in science."

"It's good to believe in science. You'll be a scientist someday," Shen Chang'an pulled the little girl up from the bench, untying the rope that bound her. "See, you're fine now?"

The girl, who had been sobbing, was coaxed into laughter by Shen Chang'an, and she walked out with her two classmates.

The three of them had just reached the doorway when they saw a man and a woman charging towards them, brandishing peachwood swords and Bagua mirrors.

Du Zhonghai and Gao Shujuan saw the three children come out safely and immediately asked, "Where's Shen Chang'an?"

The three children nodded and shook their heads, their expressions a bit dazed. They hadn't recovered from the unscientific incident that had just happened.

Gao Shujuan noticed a person lying in the corner of the balcony, with a pile of black fragments beside them. It looked like... a gun had been crushed?

She swallowed hard. Were they here to help Shen Chang'an, or to perform a ritual to torture the criminal's soul?

"Director Gao, take these three children down first," Du Zhonghai quickly regained his composure. "Once they're out, the students' parents can rest assured."

"Then be careful." Gao Shujuan knew that her help wasn't really needed here anymore. She put away the talismans and magical artifacts she was holding, and smiled at the three children. "Come on, classmates, let's go."

The three classmates: "..."

Was that a talisman they just saw?

After Gao Shujuan left, Du Zhonghai glanced at the criminal's soul hovering near the corpse, and without a word, he picked up his peach wood sword and charged forward.

He was a professional at dealing with evil spirits.